What does LAHSA stand for?

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority will administer the city grant.

To make matters more convoluted, LADOT's contractor is not permitted by law to remove homeless encampments, so it becomes necessary to coordinate efforts with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, and law enforcement agencies.

A survey of 3,230 homeless people last year in Los Angeles County found nearly 7 percent living in vehicles, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.

He serves as chair of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Advisory Board, chair of the Spa 4 Metro West Coalition, executive board member of the Westside Hunger and Shelter Coalition, advisory board member of the Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team and a Fellow of the Zero Divide Initiative.

Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority officials have asked to use a Burbank armory for a shelter.

Mayor Hahn and Supervisor Burke led the effort in response to a request from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) and the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger & Homelessness, who agreed to work together in a coordinated effort to resolve the region's homelessness crisis.

Requiring special zoning for homeless shelters will block communities from exercising not-in-my-backyard protests to thwart efforts to establish shelters, said Mike Arnold, chief operations officer of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, an umbrella agency that helps fund shelters countywide.

News/Lifestyle Editors Initial $100,000 Will Fund Start Up Costs for New Respite Center Women's Care Cottage (WCC), a non-profit organization committed to ending poverty and recurring homelessness among women and families in Los Angeles, has some welcome news -- a grant awarded by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) to plan, design, build and operate a 24-hour respite center to serve this fast-growing homeless population, which now represents approximately 50 percent of the 230,000 homeless in L.